The most positive results from the disaster involve oil tanker safety.

灾难所带来的积极一面莫过于油轮安全性的提高。

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But one can imagine other situations where the disaster response is crowdsourced, and maybe the crowd is some combination of people in-country and out-of-country in order to get the fastest results.

但是你可以想象其它众包救灾的情况，也许就是一些把国内外人民结合的方式获得最快的成效。

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If we apply the same efforts of scientific mobilization toward social betterment as we do during a war or disaster, large-scale results could be achieved in a relatively short time.

假如我们把同样科学调动的努力应用在改善社会上，如同我们在战争或灾难时做的那样，那么大规模的成效将在相当短的时间内被达成。

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"The state was better prepared when Sandy hit than it had been for any past natural disaster, and the results on the ground back that up, " said Jerome Hauer, the commissioner of the New York Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services.

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The Transocean Deepwater Horizon disaster has shined a bright light on the deadly results of negligence on the high seas.

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But will this create the true urgency required to come to the best resolution, or lead us to disaster with each side blaming the other for the results?

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